FRANCIS CRICK

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• FRANCIS CRICK (noun)
  The noun FRANCIS CRICK has 1 sense:

1. English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

  Familiarity information: FRANCIS CRICK used as a noun is very rare.

• FRANCIS CRICK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English biochemist who (with Watson in 1953) helped discover the helical structure of DNA (1916-2004)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Crick; Francis Crick; Francis Henry Compton Crick

Instance hypernyms:

biochemist (someone with special training in biochemistry)

 Context examples 

While many have shown that sleep helps the brain store new memories, others, including Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, have raised the possibility that sleep – in particular REM sleep – may be a time when the brain actively eliminates or forgets excess information.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)